matthaughey

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by matthaughey 6y ago
This article isn't for you. It was written for people that have never soldered in their lives or built anything from parts.
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by matthaughey 6y ago
I actually went 5V and it’s fine. I forgot to stress that in the post but I’ll update it.
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by matthaughey 6y ago
I get that you both thought maybe I was soldering my own strips raw but the DIY in the title is about setting up your own strips, not just buying a bunch of LIFX or Hue strips.
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by matthaughey 12y ago
This is rough back of the envelope calculations, but we only have 62k paid users, only about 12k come back every day, so subscriptions would need something like 25%-50% of the daily userbase paying, not just 2%.
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by matthaughey 14y ago
My problem was that everything you need on that page is along the left-hand side. The number of contacts pre-selected is pretty small, and off to the right. I was breezing through this, trying to find old friends (and it worked! The first c
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by matthaughey 14y ago
I wish I took screenshots, but honestly my memory is I only saw six invites to review and in tiny 10px text below the "connect now" button was a thing saying (and also 1,132 more). For what it's worth, a designer that works on this feature
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by matthaughey 14y ago
Last I checked, about 400-500 had accepted. I put the blame squarely on me for not reading carefully, but also on LinkedIn for not warning me, but Google as well. Turns out Google has a group in your contacts for everyone you've ever emaile
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by matthaughey 15y ago
I mentioned that specifically because I've invested myself in a few startups and typically I only get 1% at most for sometimes much more money than what Ycombinator offers.